I am pleased to promote the Sylvia Plath Symposium at Hunter College in New York City which is to be held at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College on Thursday, 30 March 2023. The address of the venue is 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10065. The Symposium is organized by Paul Alexander , editor of  Ariel Ascending: Writings about Sylvia Plath  (1985), author of Rough Magic:  A Biography of Sylvia Plath (1991), and author of Edge (2003), a one-woman play about Sylvia Plath. The Keynote speakers are Kathleen Chalfant reading Plath's poems followed by a conversation between Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem..  Before that, throughout the day, there will be three panels including the following participants, in alphabetical order, is Susan Cheever, Heather Clark, Mark Doty, Amanda Golden, Richard Kaye, Donna Masini, Honor Moore, Eva Salzman, Vijay Seshadri, and Peter K. Steinberg. I will be participating in Panel 1 on Plath's works with A...

It is an immense honor to have been asked to teach on Sylvia Plath at the Ted Hughes Arvon Centre,  Lumb Bank, located in Heptonstall, England, in June 2023. The Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Summer School course runs from the 18th to the 24th of June 2023, and I will be joining Heather Clark and Steve Ely, among others.  Together, we will explore the work of Sylvia Plath (and Ted Hughes) in Hughes's Yorkshire home. My own classes will focus on Plath's prose, specifically The Bell Jar . Timing is everything as I had to re-buy a copy of the novel after I sold all my books to Utica last June!    Spaces at the summer school are limited, so if you are interested in the course, please do register . I am very much looking forward to and am grateful beyond expression for this opportunity. And, I am looking forward both to meeting new people and seeing old friends.    All links accessed 11 December 2022.

Please join Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and me at an event tomorrow, Thursday the 6th of January 2022, hosted by our publisher, the LSU Press, on our recent publication The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill . Registration information is here . It will be recorded, but we would love for you to witness our talk live. The starting time is 2 pm Central US time (12 noon Pacific time/3 PM Eastern US time/8 PM London time/9 PM Dortmund time). Buy the book! Please! Looking forward to seeing you then! All links accessed 28 December 2021.

Online Class Event - Everything you ever wanted to know about Sylvia Plath (but were afraid to ask) Get your new year off to a Plath-filled start with scholar and Plath aficionado, Dr Maeve O'Brien who is running a six-week online course all about Sylvia Plath, starting 13th January 2022! Maeve's credentials speak for themselves – she wrote her PhD (2017) on Plath, has published many articles on this subject and is also co-editor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath. But really - Maeve is also just a massive fangirl who loves the work of Plath and has had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with her words, visit her archives and see the places she's lived. This course is borne out of a love for Sylvia Plath and Maeve's belief in feminist community learning – you do not need to have an academic knowledge of Sylvia Plath: you just have to have an interest and show up! Join a global classroom and meet people from all over the world who want to lea...

Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and I would like to invite any and all interested in our book, The   Collected Writings of Assia Wevill, to join us on Zoom for a celebratory book launch. We plan to each read a letter, a journal entry, a poem, and discuss a bit why the book was important to us to bring out. Time permitting we can field some questions.  Date: Saturday, 13 November 2021 Time: 1 pm, Eastern US time Duration: 30-45 minutes Click here to register!!    Remember to use discount code 04GIFT when you order direct from the LSU Press .  All links accessed 30 October and 1 November 2021.

Congratulations to Heather Clark are in order as her Pulitzer Prize Finalist biography Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath  was issued in paperback in the U.S. earlier this week.  If you somehow had the patience to wait 11 months from when the hardback was issued, you are saint-like. Red Comet was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. The paperback edition is published by the Vintage Books imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. It comes in at 1,118 pages and the ISBN is 978-0-30-795126-7.  You can buy it on Amazon , or from the publisher directly , or from your local book store.  If you are in the New York City area, Heather will be doing a live, in-person event on 1 December 2021. Details here . Red Comet will be published in paperback in the U.K. on 3 February 2022 . All links accessed 16 September 2021.

Last Saturday's Sylvia Plath on Zoom event with Donnie Secreast and Jeanne Marie Beaumont is now live on the Sylvia Plath Info YouTube channel .  Thank you again to Donnie and Jeannie for participating and to those who attended.  All links accessed 8 June 2021.

It is with the most delight possible that I share the link to last Saturday's Zoom panel on Sylvia Plath which featured a paper given by Sarah Bahr, a poem read and annotated read by Kathleen Ossip, and an announcement about a forthcoming Zoom series that on the Rosenstein Archive of Sylvia Plath research materials made by Emily Van Duyne, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, and myself.  The video was made public earlier this morning on YouTube . Thank you to Sarah, Kathleen, Emily, and Julie for contributing to a really rich, warm, and inspiring hour.  The next scheduled Sylvia Plath Zoom talk is on 5 June 2021, at 10:30 am Eastern US time. It will feature Donnie Secreast and Jeanne Marie Beaumont. Meeting link information will be available in mid-May. And maybe in mid-May we can do a spontaneous Plath chat, if there is interest? All links accessed 29 April 2021.

Hello and good day to you. Happy to announce that registration for the Sylvia Plath event on Zoom is now open .  The speakers are Sarah Bahr, Kathleen Ossip, and Emily Van Duyne and myself. We hope to have time for questions and answers, too. So please remember it's Saturday 24 April 2021 starting at 10:30 am and running for 60 minutes. All links accessed 12 April 2021.  

A short while ago I saw a tweet by Sarah Bahr about her presenting a Sylvia Plath paper at a conference. The topic was "'Dying is an Art': Sylvia Plath's Theatricality of Death."  Well, I want to hear this and it got me thinking that it was about time for another virtual Plath thing. But not a full on Zoomposium, that was a good thing but took a lot of time. So I thought it might be worthwhile to try a small panel of three or so people.  Poet and Plath fiend Kathleen Ossip, whom I at the 2012 Plath Symposium at Indiana consented to participate, too.  To round the thing out, Emily Van Duyne said she was on board to discuss another  virtual Plath series that we have been concocting and jonesing to start up (which will feature both Gail Crowther and Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, among others), once schedules start to open up in May. In addition to this series, I am hopeful of hosting and co-hosting more virtual Plath events in the future. So, if you have a paper you hav...

On Friday, 23 October 2020, at 8 PM, Heather Clark, author of the new biography Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath , and I will have a conversation about her book courtesy of Politics and Prose, a Washington, D.C. based independent bookstore.  The event is free, you just simply have to register .  All links accessed 28 September 2020.

The Sylvia Plath Zoomposium III, to be held Saturday, 25 July 2020, will start at 10 am NY Time (3 PM London time). Gail Crowther and I thank you all so much for registering and for your attention throughout the hours you will spend in front of your computer or other device. The interest in these Zoom events has been so wonderful. Very warm. The following shows the order of speakers. As with the first two Zomposiums, we will plan to start at 10 am EDT/3PM BST sharp and proceed straight through each speaker with no breaks. The order of the speakers will be alphabetical by last name, so: Janet Badia, Marsha Bryant, Emmeline Downie, Olivia Foster, Gillian Groszewski, Natalie Hurt, Craig Johnson, Jeremy Lowenthal, and Laura McKenzie. Interested in the event? Click here to see registration information . All links accessed 21 July 2020.

Gail Crowther and I are doing it again! We are very excited to announce The Sylvia Plath Zoomposium III has been scheduled. We have another line-up of quality international presenters who will all speak on a variety of topics. We are thrilled so many people have an interest in speaking about their research on Sylvia Plath. The event will be held on Zoom, again. The details: Date: Saturday, 25 July 2020. Starting time: 10 am EDT/3 pm BST. Registration for the event will be required. Click Here To Register! The presenters, listed here in alphabetical order, are: Janet Badia (US) Marsha Bryant (US) Emmeline Downie (UK) Olivia Foster (UK) Gillian Groszewski (IE) Natalie Hurt (UK) Craig Johnson (UK) Jeremy Lowenthal (US) Laura McKenzie (UK) All links accessed 22 June and 1 July 2020.

When Gail Crowther and I starting planning for the Sylvia Plath Zoomposiums I think it is safe to say we were nervous. What if no one signed up? We figured an audience of five was better than nothing, and so we tried to line up solid groups of presenters that might attract a decent group of listeners. I am not sure I can speak for Gail, but strangely enough the more people that registered the less nervous I truly was. How would the technology work? The thought that things could go weird or horribly wrong were more prevalent than that they might just go smoothly. Happily, the events went relatively well. It all felt warm and collegiate and supportive. Though I know some people had connectivity issues and could not stay logged in for which I am sorry. However, this is why we recorded it and why we are very happy to make both available on the Sylvia Plath Info YouTube channel. Zoomposium I (recorded 30 May 2020) featuring: Mona Arsi, Heather Clark, Sarah Corbett, Amanda Golden,...

The Sylvia Plath Zoomposium II, to be held Saturday, 6 June 2020, will start at 10 am NY Time (3 PM London time). Thank you so much for registering and for your attention throughout the hours you will spend in front of your computer or other device. The interest in these Zoom events has been so wonderful. Very warm. We are working to schedule additional Zoomposiums and have a number of speakers interested. So look for more on that in the future. The following shows the order of speakers. As with the first Zomposium two days ago, we will plan to start at 10 am EDT/3PM BST sharp and proceed straight through each speaker with no breaks. Di Beddow Gail Crowther Eva Stenskar Peter Fylder Peter K. Steinberg Julie Irigaray Dorka Tamas Emily Van Duyne Giulia de Gregorio Listo Kitty Shaw Carl Rollyson

The Sylvia Plath Zoomposium I is next Saturday, 30 May 2020. The start time is 10 AM NYC time, 3 PM if you are in London. Outside of those two time zones, we shall leave it to you to sort it out! We wanted to post the schedule so that you can budget your time accordingly, though we naturally hope all will be present for the entire event. Thank you all for registering, the link to the event is in your confirmation email. And thank you for your patience, too, with the technology. It is our honest endeavor to have a fun, warm few hours together listening to some of the most interesting scholarship on Sylvia Plath. The following shows the order of the speakers and the expected start time for each. However, we are going one after the next and plan only to be ahead of schedule, not behind. Mona Arshi: 10:05-10:20/15:05-15:20 Heather Clark: 10:25-10:40/15:25-15:40 Sarah Corbett: 10:45-11:00/15:45-16:00 Amanda Golden: 11:05-11:20/16:05-16:20 Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick: 11:25-11:40/...

Gail Crowther and I are happy to announce that registration for the both Sylvia Plath Zoomposiums are now open. The details are coming! The details are coming! Sylvia Plath Zoomposium I Date: 30 May 2020 Time: 10 am EDT/3 pm GMT This event has ended. The speakers for this first event are: Mona Arshi (UK) Heather Clark (US) Sarah Corbett (UK) Amanda Golden (US) Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick (US) Gary Leising (US) Maeve O'Brien (UK) Nic Presley (UK) Maria Rovito (US) David Trinidad (US) Sylvia Plath Zoomposium II Date: 6 June 2020 Time: 10 am EDT/3 pm GMT Click here to register for Sylvia Plath Zoomposium II The speakers for this first event are: Di Beddow (UK) Gail Crowther (UK) Peter Fydler (UK) Julie Irigaray (FR/UK) Giulia de Gregorio Listo (BR) Carl Rollyson (US) Kitty Shaw (UK) Peter K. Steinberg (US) Eva Stenskar (SE/US) Dorka Tamas (HU/UK) Emily Van Duyne (US) The Zoomposiums will be recorded. Each speaker will present consecutively wi...

Gail Crowther and I are happy to announce that we will be giving our second live public reading from our book These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath . The event will be on Zoom on Saturday, 9 May 2020, at 10 am EDT/3 pm GMT. The first five essays in These Ghostly Archives  ( Amazon ) are written conversations about our experience of researching Sylvia Plath and her archive. They were composed textually, completely, with us emailing back and forth documents and responding to what was said. This reading provides an opportunity to hear our Sylvia Plath conversations in our own voices. Registration will be required for the event. Please click here register . All links accessed 27 April 2020.

Something I heard from people was that they wished they could have attended some of the talks on editing The Letters of Sylvia Plath  from the Belfast symposium and or at some of the other events I was lucky enough to give it. I recently joined Zoom and would like to offer anyone the opportunity to join in on a reading of my paper.  So please join me on Saturday, 25 April 2020, at 10 am Eastern Time US . My talk should run about 25-28 minutes. I will try to answer questions if some are presented in the chat feature, or, also, on Twitter @sylviaplathinfo ! I plan to give the very same talk for those on the other side of the clock, as it were, in places such as New Zealand, Australia, Asia, and the like. Please bear with me if there are any technical glitches. This is a trial run for two additional events: 1. A reading from These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath  that Gail Crowther and I plan to do on 9 May. 2. Gail Crowther and I are ...

On Thursday, 9 January 2020, I had the privilege to share the stage with a panel of Sylvia Plath scholars--Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick (organizer and presenter), Heather Clark (presenter), and Janet Badia (respondent)---at the MLA conference in Seattle. Our topic was "New Developments in Sylvia Plath Studies: Archives, Biography, and Feminism". The audience was small, but that did not have any bearing on our passion for our respective pieces. After my talk, entitled "The Indefatigable Sylvia Plath", Heather presented "P(l)athography: Sylvia Plath and Her Biographers" which provided an overview of the role Plath biographies have played in pathologizing their subject. This was followed by Julie's "'Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children': Sylvia Plath's Representations of Assia Wevill", an investigation on Wevill's role as a muse in Sylvia Plath's poetry. Janet responded with an eloquent summation of our talks asking...